Another year, another great conference from Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada. 16 students from the Geothink grant attended the pre-conference.

Approximately 70 people attended, among them engineers, geographers, planners, law graduate students, planners. We heard 53 presentations, from Mapping for the Czech airforce to Geosocial to geospatial data in land tenure. And a great keynote from Nigel Waters.

In January, Ana and I attended Open Data for Development, the group of people that are attempting to create the IATI data standard. Ana presented a talk called Crowdmap as a tool for international development.

Drew, Ph.D. Candidate, Place-based Climate Change Education, was awarded a prestigious Richard H. Tomlinson Fellowship in University Science Teaching, for his research on integrating inquiry-based education as well as Web 2.0 tools to improve teaching about on climate change.